DEADLY SNOWSLIDE.

TWENTY-FOUR LIVES PROBABLY LOST IN A COLORADO MINING DISTRICT.

Georgetown, Colo., Feb. 13 -- In a snow slide at Silver Plume yesterday, 24 lives are believed to have been lost. The dead are Italian miners with their families. Eleven bodies have been recovered, only two of which have been identified. The disaster occurred at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The avalanche came with terrific force, carrying with it huge boulders and immense trees. A short distance from the starting point the avalanche parted, one section coming from Cherokee gulch, taking with it two cabins occupied by Italians and the shaft house of the Carry City mine. The other slide come down Williahan gulch, between the Pelican and the Seven-Thirty mines. This portion of the slide did the most damage.
Settlements of miners, mostly Italians, were situated in both gulches. For a week or more the inhabitants have moved from place to place to escape threatening disaster should the snow start down the mountain sides. Some of the most venturesome lingered in their homes, and when the slide came yesterday escape was for them impossible. It is estimated that 13 bodies are still buried beneath the snow on the two gulches. There is pracctically no hope for those under the debris. Instantaneous death was probably their fate.

North Adams Transceipt Massachusetts 1899-02-13
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!